Article: Right ingredients for a career in the kitchen - EDUCATION 2003; University could be the best route to your dream career - or you could learn on the job. Gaby Huddart talks to two top chefs who followed different routes into the profession.

Byline: GABY HUDDART

THE emergence of a new breed of celebrity chef has transformed this once unglamorous profession in the eyes of the public.

Jamie Oliver, Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsay - to name but three are now national heroes, whether they are retraining our unemployed youth or introducing once kitchen-shy men to the delights of flat-leaf parsley and vanilla sugar.

Oliver, Rhodes and Ramsay all started their careers by going to catering college, the standard entry route into the profession.

Almost all chefs learn their trade either by going straight to college from school, or by gaining an apprenticeship with a hotel or ...

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